Crinum longifolium?
Mary Sue Ittner (Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:37:55 PST)

Jim Shields has suggested the Tropicos data base as a source for
looking up the most accepted species names. I think it is an
excellent resource.

Another one I use for South African plants is the South African
Biodiversity Institute's plants of Southern African, an online checklist:
<http://posa.sanbi.org/searchspp.php>

The latter says about Crinum longifolium:
AMARYLLIDACEAE Crinum longifolium Thunb. = Crinum bulbispermum
[No lifecycle defined]. [No lifeform defined]. Ht [?]-[?]m. Alt
[?]-[?]m. [No distribution defined]

I've mentioned before that I also find the Kew monocot checklist very helpful:
<http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/home.do>

If you look up Crinum longifolium

(L.) Thunb.

in it, you have another choice:

Ammocharis longifolia (L.) Herb.

Also mudding the water is that two different people named Crinum
longifolium so that there could have been two different plants.

The advantage to using some of these well respected data bases is
that they are often updated. The frustrating thing is that they don't
always agree.

Our wiki Crinum pages are another wonderful resource thanks in great
degree to Jay Yourch and Alani Davis. We don't have all the
Australian species on it however. Hopefully some day one of our
Australian members will help supply images of them.

Mary Sue

ree. 06:58 AM 12/9/2010, you wrote: